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a glass frog's underside

“[…] women have an affinity for horror, they always have.” Soraya Roberts

“The Linda Williams essay serves as a bridge from Laura Mulvey to Clover by positioning the woman not only or just a victim, but as a symbiotic double for the monster (monster/woman as ‘different,’ ‘freak,’ object-to-be-looked-at, victimized, etc.). Which harks back to the early horror film classics where the monsters were sympathetic figures (wolfman, Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, King Kong, the Mummy, etc), unlike the demonized and psychologically disturbed human monsters of the modern era. The “otherness” of so many classic horror movie monsters could be seen as metaphoric explorations of different forms of ‘difference.’” Donato Totaro

“Just as these movies and stories can provide a venue for us to talk about how we feel victimized, they can also provide a way for us to walk backward into our own scary parts.” Sady Doyle

Carrie, Thomasin, Jennifer, Ginger

“We all want to be the final girl”: Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy

FEMINIST HORROR PLOTS AGAINST PATRIARACHY

Horror Lives in the Body

On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women